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...German frontier in North Slesvig is the frontier of all Scandinavia! . . . It must and will be defended by every means at our disposal. I shall consult at once with Premier Hansson [of Sweden] and Premier Mowinckel [of Norway]. . . . The time is ripe for us to forge a united Scandinavian front...
...chiefly because he wanted to boom the arms & ammunition business, get more advertising into his magazines. In February 1926 he launched a nation-wide promotional campaign, offered $100 for a name. The money went to a Montana rancher's wife who suggested "skeet," an obsolete word, probably Scandinavian, meaning "to shoot...
...Nebraska's leading citizens, honored as national president of the Boy Scouts, as president of A. B. A., as director of New York Life Insurance Co. To him then came an opportunity for advancement. He was offered the presidency of the State Bank (Chicago's leading Scandinavian bank) previously headed by the late Ralph Van Vechten. Only a short time had Mr. Head been installed when, at the height of 1929's boom, State...
...like Garbo she was glamorous, passionate, enigmatic-a femme fatale. She complicated life unbearably enough for her lawyer Sir Malcolm Keane, hitherto a devoted husband, without having his young wife Gay antagonize Judge Horfield by squelching his lickerish advances. And again like Garbo, Mrs. Paradine was of humble Scandinavian birth, had once worked in a barber shop. So there had been no insuperable barrier between her and her husband's valet, handsome William Marsh. Everything might have gone along smoothly, since Colonel Paradine was blind, if Marsh, his Wartime batman, had not been so fanatically loyal...
Heavyset, unaffected, truculent-looking, Remie Lohse, 40, has yellow fingernails from the methylhydroquinone he uses in developing his tiny photographs. Once his fingers were paint-stained. Leaving Puerto Rico where first his grandfather and then his father were Scandinavian vice-consuls, he studied painting at Denmark's Royal Academy, exhibited a few academic landscapes, interiors and nudes. In 1928 he arrived in the U. S. to wangle odd jobs, worked up to testing the water content of chewing gum in a Long Island City chiclets factory, finally in 1929 to an art department job in Manhattan's Erwin...